Basehead

Basehead may be the creation of Michael Ivey, a middle-class suburban child from Maryland. Ivey documented the majority of Basehead’s 1992 debut, Takes on With Toys, on the four-track aware of various friends. Merging laid-back, stoned hip-hop tempo monitors, pop hooks, drawled raps, and pseudo-folky electric guitar, the record received glowing testimonials in alternative magazines and was performed frequently on university radio. Ivey set up a touring music group and utilized them on elements of Basehead’s 1993 follow-up, Not really in Kansas Anymore. The vital reception was blended as well as the record didn’t receive very much airplay or product sales. The following calendar year Ivey assembled the choice hip-hop collection B.Con.O.B., which highlighted many of his own efforts; Basehead’s Faith implemented in 1996.